Reading Twelve: New Media from Borges to HTML

The final reading twelve was on an article called "New Media from Borges to HTML" By Lev Manovich. This was a long paper written on the first appearance of new media and how historic it is to technology. This article was very long but HTML as a language is a major innovation to computer code/ code writing.

http://manovich.net/DOCS/manovich_new_media.doc\

Reading Twelve: New Media from Borges to HTML

The final reading twelve was on an article called "New Media from Borges to HTML" By Lev Manovich. This was a long paper written on the first appearance of new media and how historic it is to technology. This article was very long but HTML as a language is a major innovation to computer code/ code writing.

http://manovich.net/DOCS/manovich_new_media.doc

Some Music; Pogo

Pogo is an extremely amazing artist who creates his music ONLY by taking small noises in popular movies also known as samples and puts them together to make a beat and a song. He then DJs the music using very advanced touchpad DJ equipment. Here is DJ Pogo's newest song, Using noises from Monsters Inc., Boo Bass

Hackintosh

A "Hackintosh" is a Mac created by any builder at home. You can buy all normal computer parts that might run better with Mac and install the OSX os over top of it. They are an underground phenomena and very interesting to learn about.

Reading Eleven: Risa Horowitz

Risa Horowitz was a really fun speaker to have into the class! Risa really made some people in the class look up and say "did she just say that?". Risa was very open about her work and let us know that she made a calendar that showed which days she had sex, had an orgasm, etc. This made the whole presentation very fun and interesting to listen to. Risa is a very creative person and all of her art work is very deep and meaningful to her. Risa seems to have n infatuation with wasting her time because every project she takes on seems to take more than a year of constant everyday work from 9-5. Risa drove across Canada, Risa said every word in the dictionary and then compiled them. Her website is very professional and up to date, It would be the perfect reference if she ever was looking for a job.

http://www.risahorowitz.com/

Reading Ten: Ex Machina

In this weeks reading we looked at the Ex Machina website. The site was alright to navigate but nothing special. I really dont have much to say about the class or the reading because I found that the material I read about just entered one ear and went right out the other ear. I have no interest in theater. It seems that the closest link I can make from theatre to creative arts studies is how the lights are controlled and mixed along with the audio of a bigger room.

http://lacaserne.net/index2.php/exmachina/

Nyan

Nyan cat is a cool mix of art done on the computer that was turned into a .gif image and put to some annoying yet oddly catchy music, most likely made on a computer as well!